b) TSC and Tai Solidarity International (TSI, a coalition of Tai communities in the US, Canada, Australia & France) officially raised our concern about a massacre of 53 Tai Dam in Son La Province, Vietnam in 1993.

c) By many trips to Washington DC and New York, TSC and TSI advocated a protest against the Son La Hydroelectric Dam which is being built by Vietnam and is to be completed in 2015. Much of the Tai Country rice fields and inhabited lands will be inundated. And worse, the dams are being built on top of a massive earthquake fault.

d) June 2005, in cooperation with other minority groups of Vietnam living in the USA, TSC sent a delegation to protest Vietnam’s Prime minister Pham Van Khai asking for WTO from USA.

e) TSC is assisting Tai Veterans in America who are requesting their overdue pensions from France (Tai Federation government fought along side the French army at the Dien Bien Phu Battle in 1954). So far, six veterans received their pensions.

To promote intercultural understanding in the community at large

a) TSC members have participated in many local and out-of-state organizations, especially the Asian Festival.

b) TSC has assisted Lawrence Sumulong, a Grinnell College student, doing an oral history on the Tai Veterans in Iowa.

c) TSC is now assisting Emily Grant, a Central College student, doing her internship on the United Nations work and the translation project for TSC.

d) TSC initiated and founded Tai Village Inc in 2001. All of TSC members volunteered one way or another. TSC will stay active and supportive of this special Tai Village project.